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Rep. Kiggans, Jennifer A. [R-VA-2]

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779 records where Rep. Kiggans, Jennifer A. [R-VA-2] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years

Bill· HRH.R. 3826 (119th)referred

Expanding Access to Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 6 June 2025

Expanding Access to Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2025 This bill expands Medicare coverage of diabetes outpatient self-management training. Specifically, the bill specifies that in addition to physicians, other health care practitioners may also provide such services. It also specifies that coverage includes an initial 10 hours of training until used, as well as an additional 2 hours of training per year. The bill also prohibits the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from limiting training that is deemed medically necessary.  Additionally, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation must test a model in which such training is provided virtually and evaluate any effects on costs, services, and health outcomes.

Bill· HRH.R. 3747 (119th)referred

Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Provider Training Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 2025

Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Provider Training Act or the AADAPT Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 and revises the Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program, which is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration. This program provides grants to support the use of technology that connects different health care professionals to improve access to health care, including specialty care, for certain rural and medically underserved populations.  The bill explicitly adds dementia care to the types of specialty care that the program may address.

Bill· HRH.R. 3699 (119th)open

Energy Choice Act

United States · United States Congress · 4 June 2025

Bill· HRH.R. 3694 (119th)referred

VALID Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 3 June 2025

Bill· HRH.R. 3689 (119th)referred

TREAT Youth Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 June 2025

Treatment, Recovery, Education, Awareness, and Training for Youth Act or the TREAT Youth Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the Preventing Youth Overdose: Treatment, Recovery, Education, Awareness, and Training (PYO-TREAT) program, which is administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The PYO-TREAT program provides grants and other support to educational and public entities for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery for children and young adults.

Bill· HRH.R. 3665 (119th)referred

Medicare Economic Security Solutions Act

United States · United States Congress · 29 May 2025

Medicare Economic Security Solutions Act This bill modifies provisions relating to enrollment periods for Medicare medical services. Among other things, the bill establishes a late enrollment penalty of 15% of monthly premiums and applies the penalty for a period equal to twice the number of months in each 12-month period during which the individual was not enrolled. Currently, the late enrollment penalty is 10% of monthly premiums for each 12-month period during which the individual was not enrolled, and the penalty continues to apply for as long as the individual is enrolled in Medicare medical services. The bill also expands the special enrollment periods to individuals who have health insurance coverage other than through their employer.

Bill· HRH.R. 3514 (119th)reported

Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 2025

Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2025 This bill establishes several requirements and standards relating to prior authorization processes under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Specifically, MA plans must (1) establish an electronic prior authorization program that meets specified standards; (2) annually submit to the CMS for publication specified prior authorization information, including the percentage of requests approved and the average response time; and (3) meet other standards, as set by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), relating to the quality and timeliness of prior authorization determinations. The CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology must publish on the CMS' website a report that analyzes the information received from MA plans, the feasibility of implementing real-time decision making with respect to prior authorization requests, and the impact of decisions that are made using artificial intelligence on patient access. 

Bill· HRH.R. 3494 (119th)referred

VA Hospital Inventory Management System Authorization Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 2025

VA Hospital Inventory Management System Authorization Act This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to purchase or develop and implement a cloud-based information technology system for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to manage inventory. If the VA purchases or develops such a system, the VA must implement a pilot program at one VHA facility before implementing the system throughout the entire VA to determine whether the functions of the system are satisfactory.

Bill· HRH.R. 3447 (119th)reported

Chip Security Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 2025

Chip Security Act This bill requires covered integrated circuit products (e.g., advanced computing chips) to incorporate certain security mechanisms. Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Commerce to require any covered integrated circuit product to have chip security mechanisms that implement location verification before the product is exported, reexported, or in-country transferred to or in a foreign country. Commerce must require any person that has received a license or other authorization under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to export, reexport, or in-country transfer a covered product to promptly report to Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security if the person obtains credible information that the product has been diverted away from its intended location or has been subjected to tampering. Additionally, Commerce must conduct an assessment and report to Congress on whether additional chip security mechanisms should be adopted. If Commerce determines additional security measures are necessary, then Commerce must require any covered product to include the secondary chip security mechanisms before the product is exported, reexported, or in-country transferred to or in a foreign country. The bill authorizes Commerce to take certain enforcement actions, such as verifying the ownership and location of a covered product that has been exported, reexported, or in-country transferred to or in a foreign country. Commerce must, within two years of the bill's enactment and annually thereafter for three years, assess new chip security mechanisms and report to Congress.

Bill· HRH.R. 3400 (119th)referred

TRAVEL Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 14 May 2025

The Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assign a physician who has been appointed in the Veterans Health Administration to serve as a traveling physician for a period of not more than one year. Such physician must provide health care to veterans at VA facilities located in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States. Traveling physicians must coordinate with non-VA providers when necessary to ensure high quality and coordinated care for veterans receiving hospital care and medical services. The VA must provide a relocation or retention bonus to traveling physicians.

Bill· HRH.R. 3359 (119th)referred

Veterans’ Security and Pay Transparency Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 May 2025

Veterans’ Security and Pay Transparency Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to annually report to Congress on compensation paid to VA police officers.

Bill· HRH.R. 3333 (119th)referred

MORE Nurses Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 May 2025

Bill· HRH.R. 3270 (119th)referred

Air Traffic Control Workforce Development Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 2025

Air Traffic Control Workforce Development Act of 2025 This bill expands and modifies Air Traffic Control (ATC) workforce training and programs. The bill provides statutory authority for the Enhanced Air Traffic-Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI) program. As background, standard AT-CTI institutions of higher education offer nonengineering aviation degrees that teach basic courses in ATC and aviation administration, and graduates complete training at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Academy. Students at Enhanced AT-CTI schools are provided with equivalent FAA Academy ATC training and may be placed directly into an ATC facility. The bill establishes a grant program for schools participating in the Enhanced AT-CTI program and provides for a faculty annuity supplement for ATC instructors at participating institution of higher education. The FAA must convene an aviation rulemaking committee to review and provide recommendations on the (1) curricula of the FAA Academy, AT-CTI program, and Enhanced AT-CTI program; and (2) Air Traffic Skills Assessment exam. Based on the committee's recommendations, the FAA must initiate a rulemaking or make policy and guidance updates, with an exception. The bill authorizes funding through FY2031 for the procurement and placement at ATC facilities of Tower Simulator Systems, which are used to train air traffic controllers on airport tower operations. The bill also requires DOT to establish ATC recruitment and retention incentive programs, the FAA to support the development of mental health services training related to conditions for ATCs, and the FAA to submit a report to Congress on the status of the Airspace Non-cooperative Surveillance Radar program.

Bill· HRH.R. 3291 (119th)referred

Certainty for Our Energy Future Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 2025

Certainty for Our Energy Future Act This bill terminates federal tax credits for certain investments in and the production of electricity using wind and solar energy. The bill also prohibits certain entities connected with China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea from claiming various energy-related federal tax incentives. The bill terminates the federal clean electricity investment tax credit and the federal clean electricity production tax credit for investments in and electricity produced by a facility (1) used to generate electricity using wind or solar energy, and (2) for which construction begins after 2030.  The bill also prohibits an entity that is created or organized under the laws of or controlled by the government of China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea, or an entity controlled by one or more of such entities, from claiming the federal tax credits for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property, second-generation biofuel, biodiesel fuel, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable electricity production, carbon sequestration, zero-emission nuclear power production, clean hydrogen production, clean commercial vehicles, advanced manufacturing production, clean electricity production, clean fuel production, investments in energy property, advanced energy projects, clean electricity investment, biodiesel mixtures, alternative fuel, or alternative fuel mixtures. Further, such entities are prohibited from claiming the federal tax deduction for energy efficient improvements to commercial buildings. Finally, such entities are not entitled to a credit or refund of federal excise taxes paid on biodiesel, alternative fuel, or sustainable aviation fuel mixtures produced by the entities.

Bill· HRH.R. 3262 (119th)referred

NURSE Act

United States · United States Congress · 7 May 2025

Bill· HRH.R. 3184 (119th)referred

PFAS Alternatives Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 2025

Bill· HRH.R. 3183 (119th)open

SAFE STEPS for Veterans Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 2025

Supporting Access to Falls Education and prevention and Strengthening Training Efforts and Promoting Safety initiatives for Veterans Act of 2025 or the SAFE STEPS for Veterans Act of 2025 This bill addresses certain mobility and aging care and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). First, the bill requires the establishment and operation of the Office of Falls Prevention within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for purposes of providing, evaluating, and improving VA health care services related to falls prevention. Among other duties, the office must oversee and support a national education campaign for veterans, their families, and health care providers that focuses on reducing falls and increases awareness of available benefits or services provided by the VA to reduce falls. The bill also expands membership of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Healthy Aging and Age-Friendly Communities by including the VA. The VA must issue or update directives of the VHA for facilities and providers relating to safe patient handling and mobility policies. Additionally, the VA must determine the feasibility and advisability of implementing a pilot program to provide home improvements and structural alterations to prevent falls for veterans who are eligible for such services under VA laws. Finally, the bill requires the VA to ensure certain veterans receive a falls risk assessment from a licensed physical therapist or occupational therapist.

Bill· HRH.R. 3204 (119th)referred

BASIC ACT

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 2025

Bill· HRH.R. 3170 (119th)open

Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 2025

Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025 This bill expands the role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in providing services to injured federal workers under the federal workers' compensation program. Specifically, under the program, nurse practitioners and physician assistants acting within the scope of their practice may (1) prescribe or recommend treatment for injured federal workers; (2) certify the nature of an injury and probable extent of disability; (3) provide prescribed treatment for injured federal workers; and (4) participate, with a physician designated by the Department of Labor, in a mandatory workers' compensation examination of an injured worker. In general, only physicians may fulfill these roles under current law.

Bill· HRH.R. 3164 (119th)reported

Ensuring Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 2025

Ensuring Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act This bill provides for permanent coverage under Medicare of certain pharmacist services. Specifically, the bill provides for permanent coverage of testing and treatment services provided by pharmacists relating to (1) COVID-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and streptococcal pharyngitis (strep throat); and (2) other public health needs in relation to a declared public health emergency. (Similar authorities were temporarily granted during the COVID-19 public health emergency.) Such services must be provided in accordance with the applicable state laws governing pharmacists' scope of practice.

Bill· HRH.R. 3107 (119th)referred

SERVE Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 April 2025